“Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.”

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Compassionate conservative. I don’t know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

I love doing live action movies, but there’s a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, You want a piece of me?

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug – and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.

The United States and Mexico are trapped – economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime – in the same continent.

There’s so much fear involved in trying to do something you don’t know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.

If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Colombia is in a risky position. They’ve got a peace process that’s going nowhere, and a drug production problem that’s skyrocketing.

There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere.